Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-09

bent glrl WAS III 1Or the prlTCcSS III Glie
fairy tale. She had masses of gold
brown waiving hair hanging dowr
loosely about her shoulders and almost
touching the ground, and the sun.
beams were giving it t..eir own bright
| shades.
She had evidently been out to
bathe, andw letting the sun and all
dry her luxuriant tresses for her.
Her eyes were hidden by their long
fringed lashes, but the rest of the oval
face was perfect.
In repose. the mouth We'd with
Cupid's bow in shape; the nose was
short and straight, the ears like tiny
, sea shells, the chin dimpled, the brow
broad and white and intellectual
partly hidden by short curls, which
the water had but made more wavy.
She was dressed in a plain white
| flannel costume, which clung to her
figure and revealed its perfect SYM
metry, while pretty foot in neat
black shoe and stocking was peeping
from beneath the white skirt, and
Bertram saw that the ankle was
slender and the instep arched, and the
white hands and rounded arms shown
by her short sleeves were none the
less to his taste.
Uuder her lap lay tiny Yorkshire
terrier asleep, and she strokedit while
she read.
"What grill A regular Venus!"
murmured the watcher. And has a
mind, too how attentively she reads !"
How long he stood regarding her he
never knew, bui it was, he admitted to
himself, considerable time.
She got impatient with her book ;
the author had not pleased her.
Rubbish!" she cried. Senti-
mental trash I" And she flung the
volume aside.
Sensible, too," said Captain
Bfrkeley; 'by Jove, she's a rara
avis"
Her sudden movement had awake
her fluffy little rat of a dog, and he
began to bark furiously, with a sharp
'yap, yap," for he had at last found
out the near vicinity of stranger.
Bertram's s goddess turned suddenly,
and looked searchingly toward the
spot where he stood.
"Heavens, what eyes! Blue as a
sapphire in the sunlight, with black
fringed lasf es % Soldier as he was,
and carpet knight, he could do moth
ing but stare, dazzled by her unusual
beauty.
A shade of annoyance crossed the
beautiful face as she turned away and
walked toward the house, fondling
the happy little dog as she went
along.
How gracefully she walked, with an
ease and elasticity in her movements
not often seen. He continued watch
ing, but the white-robed figure ap-
peared no more.
He found his road to the sea, hap
PLY unconscious that it was private
one, and that he was trespassing, and
he returned the same way.
| His divinity was singing, and her
voice was as sweet and beautiful as
her face.
why should we parted be, Kathleen Aroon?
| When thy fond hearts with me, Kathleen
| Aroon?
Why, indeed? How he longed to
go in and say all soits Of insane and
impossible things to her!
He made a perch for himself upon
an ivy-clad wall. and listened until
voice and piano ceased, then he heard
her call her horrid little dog, and she
came to the hall door with it in her
arms. and kissed it and called it her
darling, and the little wretch found
him out again and began once more
the yap, like child's toy, and,
ashamed to be caught watching her,
he slid from his hiding place upon the
ground, out of sight.
Little stupid" she said, looking
around, mo one is there" And be-
cause the small animal wriggled So,
she set it down. She had asserted
that no one was there, but Tiny knew
better, and, having squeezed itself
through the rustic work, it vigorously
attacked the Captains stocking-legs,
for he had shapely calf, and was in
dulging in knickerbockers.
"The little brute "worried" him so
terribly that he beat a hasty retreat,
and left it in the possession of the
field.
That evening he smoked profoundly,
drawing at his cigar like a man in
deep thought; moreover, rare thing
for Bertram Berkeley, he dreamed
and his dreams were OF blue eyes and
golden hair.
His first waking thought was of the
princess Of the fairy cottage.
"She bathes," he said, 81 will go
down to the seashore." And he
sprang out of bed and went without
even asking for his breakfast; and
regardless of the cravings of the inner
man he stayed on the beach till IL
O'Clock, but she never came. Hungry
and dissatisfied, he returned to the
inn and ate his burnt-up viands,
which had been waiting for him since
10 O'Clock, and started for that narrow
lane once more. This time he was
not disappointed; there she was
Her hair was plated and coiled up,
and She looked like a young queen
and in his mind he apostrophized her
as Juno.
He hid behind some thick shrubs,
and prayed that his enemy might not
discover him. A sun hat was in her
left hand, and she placed it upon her
head; and, turning to moving ma
chine which stood upon the lawn, she
set to work with will to cut the grass,
and the sharp, bright blades reyolved
as the verdant atoms flew before her.
"Strong and muscular, too" he
he said, admiringly. "No doctors
bills for her! What wife she will
makeW
The grass was finished and the
bright vision vanished, and once
more the thoughtful mood descended
upon the captain.
He was up again early the next
morning and down upon the beach,
but his divinity was earlier still, and
was already in the water, dressed in
the prettiest of French bathing cos
tunes and swimming about like fish.
When she perceived the stranger
she swan behind a projecting rock